Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022

448 points mgeisler

New blog post about Rust at Google: Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022.

This post highlights that people are able to ramp up and feel productive with Rust in less than six months. People also love the error messages from the compiler. I've seen this first hand while teaching Rust: the compiler will very often tell me exactly what to change tom make my example code compile. It's an amazing help!